Dub Night Out

Great night out last night, me Dubmaster C & Mr Mattar Paneer headed down to the Commodore to watch Dub legend - Lee Scratch Perry.



We've been to enough of these events to know that bands don't come on till really late, so we hung out in my garden drinking Red-Stripe & munching on a delicious bbq M put together. When we arrived we caught the back end of the first band - Los Rasarillos, a Mexican reggae band - very kool, had a lot of ska energy about them

Next up was Dub Is A Weapon. A fine, fine band from Brooklyn, New York. There was a moment during their performance where I thought ... "Dude, I want to be in a dub band .. this looks lots of fun". They blew everyone away. The sound was amazing, driving bass, mad echos, great drummer and the best bit was the saxaphonist girl ... very kool. She was miked up to a reverb and echo and it was really, really loud ... sounded ACE.

It turned out that Dub Is A Weapon, is the backing band for Lee Scatch Perry. On he rolled around 1am, the band switched gears and took it back 20 years or so. On he came, rattling away, chatting away before launching into his first blinder. It's a sensational sound, ingenius music. Still a show man at 71 and complete with grand-wizard like experience he advised the kids "Be Strong", "...Push Down Your Enemies..", "... Enjoy, the Life ...".

Around 2:30 we rolled out into the warm Vancouver air in search of a cab. Eventually we got one, now came the coin toss .. "Tails" for the dubmaster. Before I could expound "Heads.." the DubMaster was in the car - "See you tommorow...!". Nice! hahahahahaha